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LANCASTER, PA -- Franklin & Marshall College placed six players on the 2004 All-Centennial Conference men's lacrosse team.
Face-off specialist Matt Capone (Jr., Scarsdale, NY/Scarsdale)
and attackman Steve Welsh (Jr., Lewes, DE/Cape Henelopen)
were first-team selections in balloting by the nine Conference
head coaches.
The NCAA all-division record holder in face-off winning
percentage after recording an 80.4 percentage last season,
Capone led the Centennial Conference in 2004 by wining 211
of 275 face-offs for a 76.72 percentage. A 2003 All-Centennial
Conference first team selection, he tallied his first collegiate
goal as he scored on Washington & Lee's Ansel Sanders in the
third quarter for an insurance goal in a 5-3 win over the
Old Dominion Athletic Conference champion Generals.
A member of the March 15 and April 26 Centennial Conference
Men's Lacrosse honor rolls, Welsh led the team in scoring
registering 20 goals and a season high 32 assists for 52 points
to raise his career numbers to 64 goals and 67 assists for
131 points. In Centennial Conference play, he scored nine
goals and recorded team bests in assists (19) and points (28)
as Franklin & Marshall concluded the season 4-4 in Conference
play.
Statistically, Welsh was the team's go-to scorer this season as he scored once and handed out two assists in a 5-3 victory over Washington & Lee at home in Lancaster. The win marked the Diplomats first over the Generals in Lancaster since a 10-9 overtime win on Sponaugle-Williamson Field on March 30, 1996 as F&M improved to 8-10 all-time against the Generals. His most memorable game of the season occurred on April 21 as he scored twice in the final eight minutes of play for the game-winner and an insurance goal as the Diplomats defeated Dickinson 7-5 in Centennial Conference action. Welsh's game-winner with 8:21 left on the clock marked the second year in a row the junior attackman scored the game-winner against the Red Devils as he scored twice and handed out three assists in a 11-9 win in Carlisle on April 19, 2003. Tied 5-5 entering the fourth period, Welsh took over the game as he split the Devils' defense and buried a feed from Mike Down (Fr., Ellicott City, MD/Centennial) past Dickinson goalie Tom Wilson for a 6-5 lead with 8:21 left on the clock. The score marked the first time the Diplomats led in the game as F&M came back from a 4-2 deficit in the opening minute of the second half to take the win. Versus Denison at Loyola University in Baltimore, Welsh scored four goals and handed out four assists for a season high eight points in a 12-10 win over the Big Red on March 20, before tallying a goal and four assists in a 10-3 win over Ursinus in the Centennial Conference season opener on March 20 in Lancaster. On the second team, midfielder Bas Solleveld (Sr., Glenmoore, PA/Shipley School) and long-stick defenseman Ed Schellhorn (Jr., Wilton, CT/Wilton) earned honors. One of the anchors of the Diplomats' defense, Schellhorn was instrumental in Franklin & Marshall ranking among the nation's best defensive units in the latest NCAA Division III men's lacrosse statistics as F&M allowed 7.57 goals per game. Historically, he becomes the second Schellhorn to earn All-CC recognition in men's lacrosse for Franklin & Marshall as his brother Chris Schellhorn '02 earned first team recognition in 2002 and was a 2001 second team honoree.
A three-time All-Centennial Conference selection following
second team recognition in 2003 and honorable mention status
in 2002, Solleveld scored 21 goals and six assists for 27
points this year to raise his career totals to 70 goals and
29 assists for 99 points.
In Conference play, he scored 13 goals and two assists for 15 points as he capped off a season in which he was named to the Centennial Conference honor roll on May 3 and March 8. His best performance of the season came on April 24 as he scored six goals in a 12-6 win over Swarthmore College at Williamson Field. In the season opener on February 28, he scored five goals and handed out an assist in a 15-4 rout at Marymount University.
Long-stick defenseman Dave Taler (Sr., Baltimore, MD/Gilman
School) and midfielder Colin Hanley (Jr., Davidsonville, MD/DeMatha)
were recognized as honorable mention selections.
A 2003 All-Centennial Conference second team selection, Taler was instrumental in the team's defensive success. Offensively, he dished out an assist for his first career point in a 12-8 win at Muhlenberg College on April 10. The team's fourth leading scorer, Hanley registered 16 goals and two assists for 18 points this year as he improved his career totals to 64 goals and 23 assists for 87 points. Franklin & Marshall concluded the season with a 9-5 record as the Diplomats finished fifth in the Centennial Conference.
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